Journal of Sustainable Development; Vol. 11, No. 6; 2018 ISSN 1913-9063 E-ISSN 1913-9071 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education 70 Partitioning (Facade) and Identity in the Historical Context Case of Zonouz City Hassan Khalili Zonouz 1 1 Department of Architectural Theories and Conservation, Faculty of Architecture, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku city, Azerbaijan Correspondence: Hassan Khalili Zonouz, Department of Architectural Theories and Conservation, Faculty of Architecture, Azerbaijan national academy of sciences AZ1073, 115, H. Javid ave., Baku city, Azerbaijan. Tel: 99-45-1456-8928; 98-91-2350-8636. E-mail: hassan.khalili@parasmoon.com; hassankh170@gmail.com Received: March 1, 2018 Accepted: June 26, 2018 Online Published: November 29, 2018 doi:10.5539/jsd.v11n6p70 URL: https://doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v11n6p70 Abstract City, identity, and urban landscape are interconnected with each other. Urban restoration is the final objective of the study and implementation of partitioning in historical contexts. The identity of city and its determining urban elements were always discussed while the urban passages are the most prominent elements in creating the historical context of urban landscape. The present study aimed at investigating the implementation of favorable partitions by considering vitality in historical contexts. This study analyzed the identity, originality, and partitioning to apply the principles defining a logical solution and creating the sense of belonging, collective memories, sense of place, and points related to environmental psychology in the historical contexts. Using some landscape architecture principles by considering some parameters such as originality, identity, and social-cultural elements can contribute to idealizing the identity partitioning to historical contexts and its adjacent points in urban areas. As a result, the identity concepts and parameters can interpret the partitions in terms of thought, design, and implementation of the principles used in the architecture. Keywords: identity, originality, urban landscape, partitioning, the principle of façade design in historical context, Zonouz, East Azerbaijan 1. Introduction Partition walls are the result of the skeletal structure of public spaces and are considered as the full space of architecture. Public spaces as square, street, and passage are the empty spaces belonging to the urban residents. Empty spaces are used for transportation, transit, travel, and other citizenship affairs. The partition structure of all passages is linear, which separates the private ownership of urban units from collective spaces. This structure is affected by urban planning, natural geography, the elements involved in geographical context, social culture, and other historical experiences. The architectural culture of each region plays a role in determining form, decorative and artistic elements, available materials, governing the economic status, and attitude of urban activists in their creation. Partition is a scene for implementing the visual landscape of the city ordering the effective elements such as the horizon, rhythm, coherence, and other indicators including the landscape indicators. In addition, it is required in the city as the residential, commercial, office, and educational units. Based on this definition, partition is not considered as a physical element but a psychological, artistic, and social element in the city. Such an attitude requires a serious attention to functional materials in creating the dimensions, form, and context of designs. In addition, it highlights the concept and meaning than function, form, and environment and considers the artistic place and other values to be superior. These subjects make the designer pay more attention to each principle and observe the scientific and philosophical knowledge because there is a mutual relationship between city and citizen and each element on the partition has a psychological and bio effect on the behavior and spirit of citizens. Environment is the physical settlement of human (Gifford, 1997) and partition is a tangible part of urban environment, which indicates the environmental effects in the citizen’s mind and behavior. For this reason, environment is considered as a set of stimuli depending on the responses presented by the organism. The readability of urban landscape is to easily recognize the urban components and associate them in an interconnected form in the mind (Lynch, 1392). Façade is one of the most important elements in street playing a